Ian Monckton was just trying to enjoy a romantic weekend with his fiancé Tracey Gordon when the pair had a run-in with the Loch Ness Monster. The couple were enjoying a drive around Loch Ness, when Ian decided to pull over to the side of the road to enjoy the scenery. The romantic mood was suddenly broken by a load thrashing in the water. Monckton quickly exited the vehicle to get a look at what was making the commotion. Using the cars headlights he took several photos of an object that was just a few meters away. Only after the couple had returned to their lodging did they realize the significance of what they had captured with their digital camera. They had a set of photos of Nessie!
Here is Monckton's account of the incident:
"I had the passenger window open as I was smoking at the time and as we pulled into the lay-by there was an rustling and a splash. It sounded as if a Mini had landed in the water. That's how loud it was."
"We both looked at each other and I said 'What the hell was that'? It wasn't a small splash like a piece of debris or a stone falling into the loch. It sounded like a car or a motorbike had rolled into the loch."
"I got out of the car and walked up to the edge using the light from the car headlights to see where the edge of the loch dropped away and taking snaps with the camera so the flash let me see we where to tread."
"After a while we continued back to Homewood, both wondering what the hell we had heard and joking about Nessie," Ian added.
"However, when we looked back at the photos I had taken up to and looking over the cliff we now genuinely believe there is something in this, there is clearly a very large shape in the water that looks aquatic a few metres out from where I was standing and you just see the tips of the trees lower down the slope to the loch in the photo."
Although the young couple believe that they may have captured the elusive monster on film, Mikko Takala, who runs a webcam network for Nessie watchers worldwide, has a different opinion.
After reviewing the photos Takala gave his verdict, "I think this is probably a dead fish, maybe a flatfish."
"Obviously this photo is taken in the dark and camera flashes can accentuate details that would otherwise be barely noticeable in daylight conditions."
Whether a dead fish or a legendary monster Ian and Tracey will have quite a tale to tell their children some day.
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